Among the oldest canards – something I’ve written about before, in fact – could be the indisputable fact that females don’t like intercourse, specially casual intercourse, just as much as males do. It’s the main topic of numerous a hot debate, the punchline to hacky comedians’ jokes and also the history sound in films and sitcoms since just about forever. We’re given any amount of cause of this, from the classic “sperm is cheap/eggs are costly” evo-psych rationale to the greater amount of mercenary “women utilize intercourse for barter” market view of human being sex. This supposed disparity between male and libidos that are female section of what drives a great deal of Pick-Up Artists techniques, of Red-Pill rage and several a rant from anime-avatar’d randos on Twitter whenever people dare to recommend otherwise.
The ur-evidence with this belief could be the infamous Clark-Hatfield study, that was posted in 1989 and replicated again and again by YouTube pranksters as “social experiments” from the time.
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Needless to say, the research ended up being fatally flawed; since is described several times, Johnny Rando rolling through to an university campus and asking chicks to bang him betrays a instead serious not enough social calibration at most readily useful. But despite its flaws and mistaken conclusions, it hangs in included in the accepted knowledge of sex relations.
(needless to say, the focus that is heteronormative of causes the theory to break apart the moment homo- and bisexuality are introduced in to the mix, to express absolutely nothing of trans women and men… but hey, why let facts block off the road of closely held philosophy?)
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